A blog on museum-digital and the broader digitization of museum work. Zola 2025-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://blog.museum-digital.org/tags/tei/atom.xml 2025-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 2025-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 Joshua Ramon Enslin https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/02/14/state-of-dev-december-2024-january-2025/

Once again a simple change log of the recent updates to museum-digital's different tools.

<h2 id="december-2024">December 2024</h2> <h3 id="frontend"><a rel="external" href="https://de.about.museum-digital.org/software/frontend/">Frontend</a></h3> <ul> <li>Dates in <a rel="external" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative">TEI</a> transcriptions are parsed, irrespective of whether <code>when=""</code> oder <code>when=''</code> was used</li> <li>Notes for markings are now publicly displayed<br /> <em>This was missing thus far and is now implemented similar to how event notes are displayed. If a note exists, a small “[?]” appears behind the marking title line. Upon hovering over it, a tooltip appears with the relevant information.</em></li> </ul> <h3 id="musdb"><a rel="external" href="https://de.about.museum-digital.org/software/musdb/">musdb</a></h3> <ul> <li>Names and descriptions of exhibitions and object groups can now be translated</li> <li><a href="https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/01/13/version-control-batch-transfer-between-data-fields-of-object-records/">Version control</a></li> <li>Log of “current locations“ of an object can be exported as a CSV file</li> <li>Uploaded object images can now be hidden or published in one batch operation</li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://de.handbook.museum-digital.info/musdb/API/index.html">API</a> extended <ul> <li>(New functions)</li> <li>Transfer object dimensions</li> <li>List images and resources for an object</li> <li>Image metadata</li> <li>Publish / hide object images</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="january-2025">January 2025</h2> <h3 id="frontend-1"><a rel="external" href="https://de.about.museum-digital.org/software/frontend/">Frontend</a></h3> <ul> <li><em>Objects can now be sorted by the aesthetics of the thumbnail</em> (A dedicated blog post on this will follow soon)</li> </ul> <h2 id="musdb-1"><a rel="external" href="https://de.about.museum-digital.org/software/musdb/">musdb</a></h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/01/13/version-control-batch-transfer-between-data-fields-of-object-records/">Batch transfer between between free text fields of object data</a></li> <li>Alignment of the maximum field length for notes on opening hours is now consistent between UI and database</li> <li>Bug fixed with switching between institutions during consistency checks fixed (relevant only to users with administrative access to multiple museums)</li> <li>Literature can now be searched by editors</li> </ul> <h3 id="importer">Importer</h3> <ul> <li>Core <ul> <li>Automatic transformation of life dates for actors <ul> <li>Year of death “01.01.2012” now becomes “2012”, instead of 01.01 as before</li> </ul> </li> <li>“?” and “(?)” are removed from the beginning and end of imported keywords</li> <li>Various types of brackets in keyword names are converted to regular brackets</li> </ul> </li> <li>Parser <ul> <li>Stricter internal implementation of settings, all imports can now implement the <code>start_at</code> setting <ul> <li>This is particularly useful for the repeated execution of imports that abort due to new, previously uncovered elements and other debugging.</li> </ul> </li> <li>New parsers: <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata_Object_Description_Schema">MODS</a> (mainly used in library contexts)</li> <li>Parser for Exports from Faust for the <a rel="external" href="https://st.museum-digital.de/institution/87">Händel-Haus</a></li> <li>Parser for XML dumps from MuseumPlus Classic (MsSQL &gt; XML export per table &gt; Import)</li> <li>Bugfixes <ul> <li>Field “Verwender” in Primus parser was mapped to production events</li> <li>Material / technology are now imported correctly in the parser for BeeCollect exports for the Industrial Museums of Saxony</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>„Frontend“ <ul> <li>CLI now also has options for switching off the import of individual areas</li> <li>Help text for command line tool</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="nodac"><a rel="external" href="https://de.about.museum-digital.org/software/nodac/">nodac</a></h3> <ul> <li>Splitting of keywords now also recognizes keywords that should be split into places, times, etc. <ul> <li>Bsp.: „Helm; Berlin“ &gt; Schlagwort „Helm“ + Ort „Berlin“</li> <li>Example: “helmet; Berlin” &gt; keyword “helmet” + place “Berlin”</li> </ul> </li> <li>When searching for keywords with ambiguous names, both keywords and generally ambiguous terms are now taken into account</li> <li>Times can now be merged with others directly from the time edit page</li> </ul> <div class="my-4 flex flex-col rounded-lg bg-(--admonition-bg)" style="--admonition-bg: var(--admonition-info);" > <div class="flex items-center rounded-t-lg bg-(--admonition-bg) p-1"> <div class="mx-2 h-4 w-4 text-[0px] [background:var(--url)_center_center_no-repeat] dark:invert" style="--url: url(icons/info.svg);" > info </div> <span><strong>AI Use</strong></span> </div> <div class="pl-4"><p>Post image generated using AI.</p> </div> </div> <div class="my-4 flex flex-col rounded-lg bg-(--admonition-bg)" style="--admonition-bg: var(--admonition-info);" > <div class="flex items-center rounded-t-lg bg-(--admonition-bg) p-1"> <div class="mx-2 h-4 w-4 text-[0px] [background:var(--url)_center_center_no-repeat] dark:invert" style="--url: url(icons/info.svg);" > info </div> <span><strong>License</strong></span> </div> <div class="pl-4"><p>This content is licensed under a <a rel="external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license</a>.</p> </div> </div> https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/02/14/state-of-dev-december-2024-january-2025/typing-2025-01.avif